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Tuesday, February 24, 2009

FO updates!

This blog is sadly outdated! I've been busy knitting for my project but there have been other knitting going on as well. Shalom CardiganPattern: Shalom Cardigan by Meghan McFarlaneYarn: Rowan Cocoon, 4 skeinsNeedles: 7.00 mmComments: I finished this a couple of weeks ago. It was a really quick knit, took me about a week. The yarn is sooo soft and a pleasure to work with. I made a few changes to the pattern, cast on more stitches, put more buttonholes, and made the armholes less wide. I love the end result, it's so wearable! I'd love to knit a couple more cardigans in this kind of style.

I also knitted another beret.This is Porom by Jared Flood, lovely, super easy pattern. The yarn is RYC Silk Wool DK in Geranium, gorgeous to work with, I might need to stash up some!

And there were some socks too...This is Hopscotch Socks by Anna Bell, one of the Socktopus 2008 Sock Club socks. The yarn is AMAZING! It's Brooklyn Handspun Soft Spun Plus. It's so soft everything I touched afterwards feel rough. Not only soft, it's also bouncy and cushy and smooshy and awesome in general.These bedsocks are hanging off my bed frame so I could pull it over my feet whenever they get cold at night. The yarn is Cleckheaton Country Prints, one of the yarns I got from my trip to Australia last year. They are just simple toe up socks with 2x2 ribbing, with short row toes and heels, easy peasy.

2 comments:

Hi. This is my first time visiting your blog and I couldn't believe that this post only had one comment. Everything is so beautiful I had to say so. The socks, the Shalom, (now I want one), the yarn, everything.

Dreaming of supporting myself by crafting, meanwhile floating through life with no plans whatsoever. Enjoying the limited time I have left in London, traveling as much as I can before real life pulls me back down to earth.